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Canon: Breath of Fire III
Pairing: Nina/Rei
Canon Level: Friendly

I promise this is the end of the Nina train I have been on for the past few days. But this entire scene is Nina going, "Look who I brought home, Mom and Dad! He's a weretiger thief who's at least a decade older than me! Isn't he great?" And Rei just goes with it despite not really knowing what exactly he's doing, and I am just like, "Yes, rebel, Nina, rebel! You should be able to go for that tiger man if you want to!" It's almost like fake dating and made me believe Nina and Rei fake dating would be great. It'd start out with Nina wanting to scandalize her parents and Rei wanting to get some respectability for a start at a new life. And then Nina would realize how much of a softie Rei is beneath his fearsome exterior and how much he just wants a family to take care of. Rei would get to know all of Nina's facets and realize that here is someone willing to fight for him because he is deserving of that. Until everything finally came to a head (probably because of Nina's parents confronting them and forcing the issue), and the real truth comes out.

Suggested reading:
None.

Canon: Breath of Fire III
Pairing: Nina/Ryu
Canon Level: Interested in Each Other

I will probably ship every version of Nina and Ryu, but right now the only Breath of Fire's I'm familiar with are I and III. And while this is still Nina and Ryu, they're a different Nina and Ryu than the first game. This Nina has more sense and spends a good portion of the game chafing at the restraints put on her by her role as a princess and trying to figure out who she is beyond that role, and this Ryu gets to have his entire life be a big philosophical question on self-determination and what it means to live and exist. Nina is a steadfast friend of Ryu's, standing by and believing in him wholeheartedly since the beginning. But she's also not Ryu's sidekick, as she spends a lot of time also figuring out who she is. I like them because they clearly care for each other and they've both questioned who they are and what their place in the world is. I think post-game, Wyndia could serve as a good home for Ryu. He'd still wander, I think, exploring the world and making new friends and visiting old ones, but Wyndia and Nina would be a good place for him to rest and recoup. And sometimes Nina would go with him! Because even if she's comfortable with herself and her role leading Wyndia, I bet she would still sometimes long for an adventure and go with Ryu to see what sort of trouble they could find.

Suggested reading:
I got nothing. This is not a series of games that has produced a lot of fannish output in the form of fic.